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danny_boy
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George Lucas leaves Lucasfilm
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7-Jun-2012, 1:33 PM

Baronlando said:

The criterion laserdisc WAS the original version. The branching option was for special edition scenes, meanwhile the special edition had its own laser.

 

Are you sure about that?

The Criterion Collection 3-disc Laserdisc released in 1990 featured both the 1977 Theatrical & 1980 Special Edition cuts. The theatrical however held onto the '80 Special Edition shot of a shadowed spaceship flying over Roy's truck. This was requested by Steven Spielberg while overseeing the disc's production. The 1980 cut can only be viewed on players that could have re-arranged the disc's chapters from the end of the disc to earlier on, requiring a 5-second pause between chapters.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/alternateversions

 

And the original version was shown on TV regularly all through those years,

 

Well here is the U.S premiere of Close Encounters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcwANeCyv_U

And it is definitely the special edition(and maybe even the hybrid version?)